<p>State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Friday said it logged a 21.5 percent growth in coal allocation at 19.76 million tonnes (MT) under the four e-auction windows during the April-June quarter.</p>.<p>In the corresponding quarter a year ago, the fuel allocation by the PSU under all the four windows of e-auction was 16.26 MT, a CIL statement said.</p>.<p>The four categories of e-auction are spot e-auction of raw coal, special forward e-auction for power producers, exclusive e-auction for non-power sector and special spot auction.</p>.<p>Booking by non-power sector, under an exclusive e-auction to it, witnessed a three-fold rise during April-June 2020 over the same period in 2019.</p>.<p>CIL has allocated a total of 6.66 MT during the referred period to this sector against 2.2 MT in the year-ago quarter, with a volume increase of 4.46 MT.</p>.<p>Under spot e-auction, the maharatna coal miner had offered 24.4 MT during the first quarter of FY'21, up by 149 per cent from 9.8 MT in the comparable period of 2019.</p>.<p>However, amid the Covid-19 led crimp in demand since March, the actual booking volume was marginally down at 6.9 MT as compared to 7.4 MT in the same quarter last year.</p>.<p>For the month of June, coal booked under spot e-auction logged 77 per cent growth at 3.7 MT against the same month a year ago.</p>.<p>During June last fiscal, CIL booked 2.1 MT of coal.</p>.<p>"June 2020 also yielded CIL a growth of around 48 percent against June 2019 in regard to total allocation of coal under the four e-auction sale schemes," the PSU said.</p>.<p>CIL's allocation was 5.83 MT in June as compared to 3.95 MT in June last fiscal.</p>.<p>CIL accounts for over 80 percent of domestic coal output.</p>
<p>State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Friday said it logged a 21.5 percent growth in coal allocation at 19.76 million tonnes (MT) under the four e-auction windows during the April-June quarter.</p>.<p>In the corresponding quarter a year ago, the fuel allocation by the PSU under all the four windows of e-auction was 16.26 MT, a CIL statement said.</p>.<p>The four categories of e-auction are spot e-auction of raw coal, special forward e-auction for power producers, exclusive e-auction for non-power sector and special spot auction.</p>.<p>Booking by non-power sector, under an exclusive e-auction to it, witnessed a three-fold rise during April-June 2020 over the same period in 2019.</p>.<p>CIL has allocated a total of 6.66 MT during the referred period to this sector against 2.2 MT in the year-ago quarter, with a volume increase of 4.46 MT.</p>.<p>Under spot e-auction, the maharatna coal miner had offered 24.4 MT during the first quarter of FY'21, up by 149 per cent from 9.8 MT in the comparable period of 2019.</p>.<p>However, amid the Covid-19 led crimp in demand since March, the actual booking volume was marginally down at 6.9 MT as compared to 7.4 MT in the same quarter last year.</p>.<p>For the month of June, coal booked under spot e-auction logged 77 per cent growth at 3.7 MT against the same month a year ago.</p>.<p>During June last fiscal, CIL booked 2.1 MT of coal.</p>.<p>"June 2020 also yielded CIL a growth of around 48 percent against June 2019 in regard to total allocation of coal under the four e-auction sale schemes," the PSU said.</p>.<p>CIL's allocation was 5.83 MT in June as compared to 3.95 MT in June last fiscal.</p>.<p>CIL accounts for over 80 percent of domestic coal output.</p>